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 A N G (a mifts the defcription and hiftory of the feveral veflels of the human body. ANGEIOGRAPHY, among antiquarians, denotes the defcription of the various u ten fils, weights, meafures, «5jc. of the ancients. ANGEIOTOMY, in furgery, a term fometimes ufed for the opening of a vein or artery. ANGEL, a name given to thole fpiritual intelligent beings, who are fuppofed to execute the will of God, in the government of the world. The exiftence of angels has been admitted in all religions. The Greeks and Latins, acknowledged them under the name of genii or damont; and, in the alcoran, we find frequent mention of them, the Mahometans affigning them different orders and degrees, and different employments, both in heaven and earth. Axgel is likewise a title given to bifhops of feveral churches. In this fenfe is St Paul under Hood by fome authors, where he fays, Women ought to be covered in the churchy becaufe of the angels; and thus, in the Revelation, The feven Jlars are the angels^ that is, biiliops, of the feven churches. Angel, in commerce, the name of an ancient gold coin in England, of which fome are Hill to be feen in the cabinets of the curious. It had its name from the figure of an angel reprefented upon it. It was 23^ calats, and weighed four penny-weights. Its value differed in different reigns. ANGEL-FISH, in ichthyology. See SqjJALUS. ANGELIC; or Angelical, an epithet given to whatever belongs to, or partakes of the nature of angels. See Angel. jA.ngel.ic Art. See Art. » Angelic See Habit. ANGELICA, in botany, a genus of the pentandria digynia clafs. The fruit of the angelica is roundifh, with three furrows on each fide; the corolla is equal, and the petals turned inward at the top. There are four fpecies of angelica, viz. the archangelica, a native of Lapltmd; the fylveflris, a native of Britain; the purpurea, and the lucida, both natives of Canada. All the parts of the archangelica, but particularly the roots, are aromatic, and ufed in feveral alexeterial waters. Angelica, in Grecian antiquity, a celebrated dance, performed at their feafts, fo called, becaufe the dancers were drefied in the habit of meffengers. ANGELICS, in. cfvurch-hiftory, an ancient fed of heretics, fuppofed by fome to have got this appellation from their exceffive veneration of angels; and by others, from their maintaining that the world was created by angels. Angelics is alfothe name of an order of knights, inftituted in 1191, by Angelas Flavius Comnenus emperor of Conftantinople. Angelics is alfo a congregation of nuns, founded at Milan in 1534, by Louifa Torelli, countefs of Guaftalla. They obfervc the rule of St Augnfline. ANGELITES, in church-hnftory, an ancient fe<5t 'of heretics, whofe diftinguilhing tenect was, That the Tiinity have no diftindt fubftance, but partake in common of the fame divine elfence.

4 ) AN G ANGELO, or S r Angelo, a fea-porf town of Apu-0 glia in Naples, fituated on the gulf of Venice, in 16 2 E. long, and 410 20' N. lat. It is alfo the name of two other fmall towns in Italy, one lituated in the kingdom of Naples, and the other in the province df Urbino. ANGELOLATRIA, among ecclefiaftical writers, the adoration or worlhip of angels. ANGELOS, a fine0 city of Mexico, fituated in 1030 W. long, and 19 N. lat. about 75 miles fouth-ealt of the city of Mexico. ANGELOT, a gold coin ftruck at Paris, while fubjedb to the Englifh; fo called from the reprefentation of an angel fupporting the arms of England and France. ANGELUS. See Angel ANGER, a violent defire to be avenged for fome fuppofed injury., See Morals. ANGERBURG, a city of Pruflia, in the province of Bartenland, upon the river Angerap. ANGERMANNfA, a maritime province of Sweden, lying on the weftern fhore of the Bcthnic gulph. ANGERMUND, a town of the dutchy of Berg in Germany, fituated on the eaft fide of the Rhine, in 6° 20' E. long, apd 510’ io/ N. lat. It lies about nine miles, north of Duffeldorp, and is fubjedt to the eledtor Palatine. ANGERONALIA, in antiquity, feafls celebrated at Rome in honour of Angerona, the goddefs of filence and patience. They were inflituted, according to Macrobius, in confequence of a vow, when the people were afflidled with the quinzy. They were held on the 21 ft of December. ANGERS, a large city'of France, capital of the province of Anjou, and fituated on the river Loire, in 30* W. long, and qy0- 30' N. lat. It is a bifhop’s fee, and has a royal academy for the ftudy of the kw chiefly. ANGHIERA, a town of the Milanefe in Italy, fituated on the eaft fide of the Laco Maggiore, about 40 miles weft of Milan, in 90 E. long, and 450 40' N. lat. ANGINA, in medicine, a violent inflamatibn of the throat, other wife called quinzy. See Medicine. ANGIOSPERMIA, in the Linnsean fyftem of botarty, denotes thofe plants of the didynamia clafs, which have their feeds inclofed in capfules, or feed-veflels. See Didynamia, and Botany. ANGLE, in geometry, the inclination of two lines meeting one another in a point, and called the legs of the angle. See Geometry. Spherical Angle, that formed by the interfedlion of two great circles of the fphere. See Trigonometry. Angles of the eye, in anatomy, the fame with the corners of the eye, called by anatomifts canthi. ANGLER, a perfon who pra&ifcs the art of angling. ANGLESEY, an ifland on the coaft of N. Wales, which fends one member to parliament. ANGLIC ANUS Sudor, among phyficians. See Sudor. ANGLICISM, in ftyle, a manner of fpeech peculiar to the Englifh language. ANGLING, among fportfmen, the art of fifliing with